{"id":239634,"date":"2026-09-16T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/tc\/?post_type=event&#038;p=239634"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:47:50","slug":"master-taixus-world-buddhist-movement-and-discourse-on-civilization-centered-on-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/event\/master-taixus-world-buddhist-movement-and-discourse-on-civilization-centered-on-the-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Taixu\u2019s World Buddhist Movement and Discourse on Civilization: Centered on the 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"event_category":[32],"event_participants":[27,28,142,29],"class_list":["post-239634","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","event_category-lecture","event_participants-staff","event_participants-students","event_participants-alumni","event_participants-public"],"acf":{"title_alt":"Master Taixu\u2019s World Buddhist Movement and Discourse on Civilization: Centered on the 1920s","event_date":"20261027","event_end_date":"20261027","custom_date":"","event_time":"<p>14:30 - 16:30<\/p>","photos":[{"photo":239633,"caption":""}],"venue":"<p>Online lecture: ZOOM ID: 964 5779 7423, Password: 999999<\/p>","speaker_name":"<p>Prof. Jun Gong (Sun Yat-sen University)<\/p>","speaker":"<p>Prof. Jun Gong is currently a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the Oriental Philosophy Committee under the Chinese Society for the History of Foreign Philosophy, and a Committee Member of the Religious Studies Committee at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Evaluation Studies. Additionally, he serves on the editorial and academic boards of several prominent scholarly publications, including New History (Zhonghua Book Company), Chinese Buddhist Studies Review (Shanghai Guji Publishing House, as Editor-in-Chief), and Studies in Humanities and Religion (Institute of Religious Culture, Peking University).<\/p>","admission":"<p>Registration not required<\/p>","enquiry":"<p>cshb@cuhk.edu.hk, 3943 0646<\/p>","details":"","intro":"<div class=\"ee-custom-row\">\r\n<div class=\"ee-custom-text\">\r\n<p>Grounded in the perspectives and methodologies of intellectual history, this lecture provides a detailed discussion and analysis of Master Taixu\u2019s World Buddhist Movement and his discourse on civilization during the 1920s.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe presentation unfolds across three primary dimensions:First, it situates Master Taixu\u2019s views on Eastern and Western civilizations within the context of the 1920s Chinese intellectual debates surrounding Eastern versus Western civilization and culture, thereby deepening our understanding of the intellectual milieu of his discourse.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nSecond, it examines Master Taixu\u2019s civilizational discourse during his missionary travels in Europe and America, specifically elucidating how he utilized Geyi (conceptual matching) to interface Buddhism with Western science and philosophy to forge his innovative theories.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nFinally, the lecture reflects critically on Master Taixu\u2019s civilizational discourse regarding the globalization of Buddhism, analyzing the complex intellectual dimensions underlying his arguments\u2014particularly the implicit notions of Orientalism and nationalism embedded within his discourse on civilization.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","remarks":"<div class=\"ee-label\">\r\n<p>Language: Mandarin<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","contact_information":{"contact_person":"Ken Chan","contact_number":"39430646","contact_email":"kenchen@cuhk.edu.hk","department":"ARTS CSHB"},"content_migrated":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"original_contact_id":""},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2027-09-16 08:46:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/239634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/239634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239654,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/239634\/revisions\/239654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239634"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=239634"},{"taxonomy":"event_participants","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_participants?post=239634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}